Poetry on the Spirit's Margin

Discover here mystical and spiritual poetry including
faerie poetry, social and economic themed poetry, meditations on hospice,
stories of faith and thoughts on eternity.
Click on the links below and find epics, canticles, idylls, rousing social commentary,
and thoughts on the afterlife.

Published Works:

The Garden of Hope and Despair: A Clash of Myths

by John A. MillsExcerpts...
This poetic epic in mystical language and original art by the author tells of the Magic Garden
and its Celtic people as they face the onslaught of Greeks and Vikings.
It follows the story of Elpis, the Granddaughter of Ceres, goddess of planting and harvesting,
and Parlan, the Farmer, son of Danu, Queen of the Celts, and son of the Green Man,
as their romance unfolds during the storms of the greedy gods of Greeks and Vikings.
Along the way they encounter loss kin and suitors,
as well as mystic centaurs, wizards, druids, trolls, elves, and fairies.
Also available as a download.
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Living Færie: Looking for the Green Man

by John A. MillsExcerpts...
This book of poetry and original art explores the realm of færie in the world around us. In our highly rational, analyzed,
and explored world our sense of enchantment has become dulled. We do not pay attention to the magic and wonder around us except in bits and pieces.
But there is a whole realm of mystery, magic and enchantment shining through nature, through outer space, and through our everyday lives.
This realm is populated by fairies, those mythological images of the divine shining through the creation.
The book contains new poems and art. Also available as a download.
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Mammon: A Poem In Three Acts

by John A. MillsExcerpts... In this poem-play,
four people come to terms with the reality of the current economic crisis. Two are a working class couple trying to make a family. The other two are financial workers living in the flush of the
recent economic boom. The poem-play unfolds as each deals with the ubiquitous and universal greed manifested in hyper consumerism, the central goal of profit, and the dehumanization of the
wealthy and the less wealthy. Their lives are shattered as the deep immorality of the present global economic system grinds to a disaster. The play is in rhymed iambic pentameter. Readers will
find that the rhythm and rhyme will raise them above the current profane and uncivil arguments of this day and enable them to join the ordinary struggle of the actors to overcome the brutal
in humanity of greed. Also available as a download.
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From the Edge of the Margin: A Symphonic Epic

by John A. MillsExcerpts...
This book of poetry and original art leads the reader
from our broken age to an age of holiness and just peace.
Out of teenagers Thane and Zoe comes the Servant.
Through the Servant's mystical life of suffering the world is transformed.
From Creation to Revelation to Creation, a new age is shaped.
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Lunar Chronicles: A Symphonic Epic of Technology

by John A. MillsExcerpts...
This book of poetry and original art, the second chronicle of Thane
(the first being From the Edge of the Margin),
tells the story of Thane finding room to breathe in outer space and
to claim identity in cyber space.
The poem gathers power and mystery and is re-employed within the abyss of
endlessly spiraling doom, and witnesses to God's love and vision in full bloom.
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A Digital Romance: A Virtual Epic of Bits

by John A. MillsExcerpts...
This book of poetry and original art, the third chronicle of Thane,
tells the story of the coming of the cyber world and its attempt to overthrough reality.
In three movements the battle for dominance develops.
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